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I am a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. I have always enjoyed needle arts and have been a quilter, and a teacher of quilting, for the past twenty years. I have periodically nurtured a small pattern business which I will introduce to this blog over time.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Halloween? I think not!

I live in an area where Halloween is king, queen and perhaps princess. I do love seeing the children in costume. They are so excited and are at the door for candy. I always have more than enough.

However, I think that the wreath I made for my front door is perhaps not a Halloween wreath but lends itself more to a more literary time. I made three of these,one for my sister and one for my daughter. My daughter, the English teacher has suggested that I look at this from that literary standpoint. Now I read a great deal of those novels a long time ago, William Faulkner, Edger Allan Poe, Nelson Algren, Asimov, Bradberry, Pearl S Buck, Stephan Crane, Emily Dickenson, Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanial Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, John Irving, Barbara Kingsolver, Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Eugene O' Neill, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Jane Austin, Harper Lee, and so many more.

Two standouts for me are Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner. These are scary guys. As a young reader I was attracted to that kind of writing as well as science fiction. I remember reading "Pit and Pendulum" around fourteen. Poe wrote," Arousing from the most profound of slumbers,we break the gossamer web of some dream. yet in a second after wards, ( so frail may have that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed." I was fascinated with that phrase most of my life. Of course the truth is the biggest impact of that story was always the beating heart!!!

As to William Faulkner my favorite of his, is "A Rose For Emily" I still remember " Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition and a duty, a care; a sort of a heredity and obligation upon the town"

As I look at what I have written I realize it is a kind of ramble but sometimes that is all I have to offer. I started to read when I was almost four, so technically when I was three. bet you are impressed. I continued reading almost everyday of my life. Sometimes it helps me survive the day, always it is a comfort and joy.

Be sure to read the green box. I have seen it happen. Good reading to you. I hope you you come by and tell me about your own journey.

4 comments:

Perfect! I was pulling the references and you already got it! And, they all wonder how I became an English teacher. Ha! I was going to take my wreath to work...for my office, but I love it too much so I will need another for the office. I don't need it until Monday. I love you! ~Kelly

As a young girl our family's favorite Sunday afternoon was each of us curled up with a good book. My sisters and I are now in our 50's and 60's and we are all avid readers...and you are so right, some days our reading is what gets us through the day. I love the wreath you made and so sweet of you to make extras for your dear ones......Elizabeth

Since I am the happy recipient of this wonderful wreath. And I too have happy memories of reading the same books and still will pick them up and read a story or two. I love the new writers but nobody tells a story like Poe, or Faulkner.